Approved Code No. 9-Amendment No. 23 Registry No. 313-1-06 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETJTION 

FOR THE 

LUMBER AND TIMBER 

PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 6, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 9-Amendment No. 23 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

As Approved on October 6, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT TO THE CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

LUMBER .AND TornER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full, 

compliance with the provisions of Title I, of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act., approved June 167 1933, for approval of an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber 

Products Industries, and hearings having be.en duly held thereon 

and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with 

respect thereto, having been made and directed to the President : 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, th(} National Industrial Recovery Board,_J?ursuant to authority vested in it by Ex3cutive Orders of the t'resident, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, and otherwise; does hereby incorporate, 

by reference, said annexed report and does find that said amendment 

and the Code as constituted after being amended comply in all re- 1 

spects with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and 

purposes of said Title of said Act, and does hereby order that said 

amendment be and it is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said Code is hereby amended to include an approval of said 

Code in its entirety as amended. 

PROVIDED, FURTI-IER, that this Order shall become effective 

four ( 4) days after the date hereof, subject, however, to suspension 

or modification on good cause shown by any interested parties within 

fifteen (15) days of the effective date hereof. 

NATION AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Aclmvnutratilve Officer. 

Appro,nl recommended: 

w. P. ELLIS, 

Acting Division Adniinutrator. 

w ASHINGTON' D. c., 

October 6, 1934. 

90109°-1244-19-34 (1)' 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: Under the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and 

Timber Products Industries, as approved by you on August 19, 1933, 

the Lumber Code Authority has submitted its Amendment, which is 

included and attached. 

This is a report of the Hearing on the foregoing Amendment conducted March 27 to 30, 1934, in Washington, D. C., in accordance 

with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

This Amendment purports to further restrict the transfer of production allotments and is necessitated by the fact that in the past 

transfers have been too freely given, resulting in an unfair advantage 

to some producers and augmenting of inventories which were already 

much too large. Article VIII of the Lumber and Timber Products 

Industries Code has limited production in the Industry, but despite 

this, the inventories of many mills have been built up resulting in 

stocks which are unnecessarily large. This Amendment permits the 

Lumber Code Authority to maintain a greater control over production and at the same time eliminates abuses which have existed under 

administration of the Code as now written. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to us on said amendment to said Code having found as herein set forth and on the basis 

of all the proceedings in this matter: 

We find that : 

(a) The Amendment to said Code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose 

of cooperative action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the 

present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue restriction of production ( except as may be temporarily required), by 

increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products 

through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment1 by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7 and 

Subsection (b) of Section 10 hereof. 

( c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid Amendment on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

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( d) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

( e) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have 

not been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

Amendment. 

For these reasons, therefore, we have approved this Amendment 

to the Code. 

Respectfully, 

OCTOBER 6, 1934. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Administrative Officer. 
.AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

In Article VIII (g), strike out the last sentence and substitute 

therefor the following: 

"Allotments shall not be cumulative except as authorized in specific cases under Section ( d) ( 1) of this Article, or in cases of seasonal operations of a division or subdivision under Section ( d) (2) 

of this Article, and shall not be transferable except that upon application, the administrative agency of a division or subdivision, if it 

shall find that the nontransferability of an allotment causes or will 

cause an undue hardship in any particular case, and if it shall find, 

further, that the limitations hereinafter set forth upon the exercise of 

its authority do not exist, may authorize, under such equitable conditions and limitations as it shall determine, the transfer of allotments between operations under the same ownership within the same 

division or subdivision, provided that such authorization shall not 

become effective for a period of fifteen (15) days after the date 

thereof, and provided, further, that such authorization, together with 

the findings of fact of said agency shall be transmitted on the date 

thereof to the Authority and the National Recovery Administration, and provided further, that such authorization shall be subject 

to appeal by any interested party as provided in Article XVII 

hereof. No division or subdivision agency shall authorize the transfer of any allotment: ( 1) from a mill or factory acquired after the 

effective date hereof until such mill shall have been operated in good 

faith for six consecutive months by the new owner; (2) from one 

mill to another unless the species ordinarily produced by both are 

substantially the same; or (3) from any mill, the greater part of 

whose product may, under the provisions of Article IX, Section (a), 

Subsection 2 of this Code, be sold at prices less than the approved 

reasonable costs for the division or subdivision, except from a mill 

of the same class." 

Approved Code No. 9--Amendment No. 23. 

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